In 1993, the comedy film "Laughing Forest Kid" became popular throughout Asia and is a childhood memory for many people.
This is the first appearance of 4-year-old Shi Xiaolong, a cute bald little monk, nagging a pacifier and playing a neat Shaolin Temple martial art, very cute.
Such high-quality human cubs suddenly swept across Asia.
Born into a martial arts family, Shi Xiaolong learned martial arts at the age of 2 and became a martial arts child star at the age of 5, and has been filming non-stop since then, growing up in the crew.
There are only 20 days of the busiest year without filming.
Shi Xiaolong has been known as a "martial arts wizard" since he was a child, and because of his outstanding martial arts performances in film and television dramas, he is known as the successor of action superstars such as Jackie Chan, Zhen Zidan, and Jet Li.
Now that Shi Xiaolong is 34 years old, from a "kung fu kid" who is popular in half the sky to an ordinary actor in the entertainment industry, what has he experienced in these years?
The curse of the "child star", why he could not escape.
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In 1988, Shi Xiaolong was born in Shutanggou, Dengfeng City, Henan Province, and his original name was Chen Xiaolong.
Shutanggou is the birthplace of the two major martial arts in Henan Province, Chen Taijiquan and Shaolin Martial Arts, and everyone here knows some boxing techniques.
When the other children were still holding and drinking milk in the arms of their families, Shi Xiaolong was already led by his father Chen Tongshan to run and practice in the morning when he was 2 years old, and began the devil-style martial arts training.
Whether it is cold or scorching, Chen Tongshan, as the principal of the Shaolin Temple Martial Arts School, brings the "wolf father" style of parenting to the fullest.
He also has a well-known nickname "Chen Heihu", and his martial arts are superb.
Every morning at 5:30 a.m., Shi Xiaolong was pulled out of bed by Chen Tongshan on time and began a day of martial arts training.
At a young age, he did difficult martial arts moves, and sometimes a horse walked all morning, and his body often fell blue and purple.
In the winter, when he couldn't run in the morning, he was tied to his waist by Chen Tongshan with a rope and dragged him all the way.
Shi Xiaolong was in tears, but he didn't dare to cry, he was very afraid of his strict father.
As long as he shouts tired, there will be a stricter punishment.
After practicing martial arts for two years, Shi Xiaolong learned many sets of martial arts such as Shaolin Boxing and Luohan Fist, as well as weapons such as sticks, knives, swords, and meteor hammers.
His martial arts talent spread throughout the world, and the Chen family produced a martial arts wizard.
Shi Xiaolong won the favor of Master Shi Yongxin of the Shaolin Temple, and accepted him as a disciple with the legal name "Shi Xiaolong".
In 1991, 3-year-old Shi Xiaolong followed the Buddhist culture delegation of the Songshan Shaolin Temple to Taiwan.
The Shaolin Qi eyebrow stick he performed on the show shocked the audience at the scene.
It is really rare that such a young and lovely child can play such a flowing punch.
Sitting in the audience was Taiwanese director Zhu Yanping, who starred in the movie "Laughing Forest Boy" on the spot.
Chen Tongshan never dreamed that his son would have the opportunity to shoot a drama, but also the true color of the role, performing martial arts, he immediately agreed to sign.
In 1993, Shi Xiaolong left his parents and, accompanied by a martial arts teacher, began a life of filming in the crew.
Filming in the crew is more difficult than practicing martial arts at home, and the high-intensity work makes Shi Xiaolong cry every day.
I get up at 6 a.m. to shoot a movie and go to bed at 10 p.m. For the young Shi Xiaolong, he was physically and psychologically tortured.
In order to shoot the world's martial arts, he was hung by a thin steel wire on a large crane weighing dozens of tons, flying around in the air, and making blood marks on his body.
When filming in the summer, he was exposed to the hot sun for a long time with his bare head, and his scalp could be directly torn off a piece of skin.
Shi Xiaolong cried and called his father to ask to go home, but was scolded by Chen Tongshan.
"You must be willing to suffer hardships, and if you don't shoot well, don't go home."
Shi Xiaolong was so frightened that he never dared to mention this matter again, and filmed every scene with tears.
With the release of "Laughing Forest Boy", Shi Xiaolong's cute appearance was deeply rooted in people's hearts and became popular overnight.
He became the most popular child star of the 90s, earning millions.
He has successively starred in more than a dozen films such as "Chinese Dragon", "Invincible Anti-Fighting Star", "Tales outside the Heavenly Court", and cooperated with well-known Hong Kong and Taiwan stars such as Lin Zhiying, Wu Mengda, Jin Chengwu, Zhang Weijian, etc., and also let the audience see him who grew up slowly in the film.
In 1999, Shi Xiaolong's first TV drama work "Young Bao Qingtian" came out, this year, he was 11 years old, playing "Zhan Zhao".
Although Shi Xiaolong has achieved great achievements as an actor and is a little star that everyone envies, he has always been very unhappy.
He grew up in the crew, and his greatest desire was to go to school, and he wanted to live like a normal child.
However, Chen Tongshan always refused him, just invited a culture teacher for him to teach him knowledge, and Shi Xiaolong did not dare to go against his father's wishes.
At that time, others said that he was his father's "money-making tool".
These words reached his ears, and he always cried secretly.
It was not until the age of 15 that his father agreed to let Shi Xiaolong go to the United States to study and attend a vocational high school in the arts, interrupting filming for two years.
Only during the summer vacation, he showed his face in TV dramas, such as "The Legend of Xue Rengui" and "Drunken Man Zhang San" and other works.
The study abroad career allowed Shi Xiaolong to find a rare happiness.
Although he only lived the life of an ordinary student, it made his heart relax like never before.
Since the ancient hero was born into a teenager, Shi Xiaolong suffered a lot as a child, and only then did he become a kung fu boy that everyone liked.
When he chooses to leave the show business circle to study at the right age, will his acting career still be as smooth as before after he returns to China?
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In 2008, Shi Xiaolong finished high school in the United States and prepared to return to China to study while filming.
"My idols are Jackie Chan and Jet Li, and I also want to go to Hollywood to develop and surpass these predecessors."
When Shi Xiaolongzhi triumphantly planned to restart his acting career, his ideals were always invincible to the changes in reality.
The entertainment industry is the most realistic place, the new small fresh meat latecomers are on the top, even the most popular child stars have no foothold.
When Shi Xiaolong returned to the entertainment circle, he found that he had been abandoned by this circle of reality.
"You're that little monk, how did you grow so big?" How cute it was when I was a kid! ”
Everyone only remembered what Shi Xiaolong looked like when he was a child, and they were not interested in him when he grew up.
Xu is because he finally lived the free life he wanted, and he didn't have to practice martial arts every day, Shi Xiaolong gained a lot of weight during his time in the United States, and he also got rid of the childishness of his childhood.
Shi Xiaolong has successively starred in films such as "Line of Fire" and "Chinese Kung Fu", which are not excellent in lineups, and his appearance has also disappointed long-awaited fans.
"Shi Xiaolong is crippled!" He made a comeback to film, and the audience's popularity suddenly became lower.
The figure that was blessed because of the growth of adolescence caused disgust among fans.
Shi Xiaolong, You Haoran, Lu Ziyi, Alpha, Jin Ming, and Little Ding Dong have not been able to escape the "curse" of child stars.
In 2010, when it was difficult to usher in the resources of the movie "Ip Man 2", there were Zhen Zidan, Hong Jinbao, Fan Shaohuang, Huang Xiaoming and other first-line celebrities.
But Shi Xiaolong's role in a group of martial arts superstars is weak, just a small supporting role.
As early as 1995, Shi Xiaolong and Zhen Zidan collaborated in "Gamble Saint 2 Street Gamble Saint", when Shi Xiaolong was an important role in the film.
5 years have passed, the situation has changed, and although Shi Xiaolong has returned to the big screen, he has become a small supporting role.
And under the direct shooting of the film lens, he is even more fat, with thick arms and fat face, so that the audience almost can't recognize it.
It's a bit hot-eyed, and the agility and cuteness of childhood are gone.
A fat destroyed everything, which was too obvious in Shi Xiaolong's body.
Despite his body shape and martial arts not as refined as before, Shi Xiaolong, under the persuasion of his father Chen Tongshan, established the "ShiJia Class", named "Longmen Shijia".
Here is a film and television training base, and a wide range of trainees are recruited to teach martial arts film and television shooting skills.
Shi Xiaolong also spoke for his father's martial arts school.
Shi Xiaolong became his father's "golden signboard", and all kinds of fame and fortune continued to attack him.
Some of the gaps after returning from the United States were also touted by various tomes, and Shi Xiaolong felt that he had returned to the infinite scenery of his childhood.
Filming movie dramas, going on variety shows, and doing businessmen, Shi Xiaolong's career blossomed in an all-round way under the leadership of his father.
In February 2011, Shi Xiaolong was photographed shopping intimately with He Jie, and the "sister-brother relationship" was exposed.
The two had a love affair when filming the movie "The Legend of the KnifeMan", and they were tired of being together every day as early as the crew, which was very sweet.
This is the first time that Shi Xiaolong has been exposed to love.
The audience all sighed that the little monk had grown up and reached the age of love.
Compared with the pure love of Shi Xiaolong, He Jie is two years older than Shi Xiaolong, and since Supergirl became famous, she has been in constant scandal.
He has been known as the "King of Hype" for walking the red carpet and deliberately falling down many times, dancing to the light, fainting at the airport and other incidents.
Although He Jiefeng commented on the average, Shi Xiaolong loved him to the death, and the two soon lived together.
Every time He Jie returned from a performance in a foreign country, Shi Xiaolong always couldn't wait to pick her up.
The apartment they lived in was said to be He Jie's property and was worth millions of dollars that year.
Although Shi Xiaolong was a child star, compared to He Jie, who was in the sky at that time, coupled with the poor resources and low remuneration for filming in China, it was obvious that Shi Xiaolong was not as good as He Jie in terms of financial resources.
Therefore, it has also been rumored that "sisters and noble brothers are cheap", especially He Jie's fans, who have said that Shi Xiaolong is not worthy of He Jie.
The two were photographed returning to their accommodation together many times, looking very affectionate.
On the social platform, they also interacted sweetly many times, Shi Xiaolong called He Jie "He Dabao" and "Sweet Lady", and He Jie returned to "Dragon Less".
Shi Xiaolong often accompanies He Jie to go shopping, as long as He Jie likes something, he rushes to pay for it, and his boyfriend is full of purchasing power.
At one point, there was also news of talking about marriage, and it was rumored that Shi Xiaolong was preparing to buy a mansion and a diamond ring to propose to He Jie.
Because He Jie is fatter, the news of pregnancy has also been reported.
I thought that the two would soon enter the palace of marriage, but I did not expect that this relationship would come to an abrupt end after a few months.
In June 2011, when the media interviewed Shi Xiaolong for filming a TV drama version of "Heroes from Ancient Times to Teenagers", Shi Xiaolong denied the news of his marriage to He Jie.
"It's so hilarious!"
Because he was a child star since childhood, Shi Xiaolong has long been accustomed to the media, and he has always been polite and polite.
And this interview in the face of love, he was emotional and had a very poor attitude.
Although the two have been photographed many times, this relationship suddenly broke cold, which surprised everyone.
When Shi Xiaolong responded, He Jie also secretly poked and threw out her own mate selection criteria in a certain program.
"Older than yourself, know how to take care of girls, can take care of people, have filial piety and have a good temper."
One of the boyfriends listed by He Jie is that he is older than himself.
A stone stirred up thousands of waves, and He Jie's meaning could not help but make people speculate.
Isn't Shi Xiaolong two years younger than her?
Does He Jie mean that Shi Xiaolong has a big temper and doesn't know how to take care of her?
After this remark, the rumors of Shi Xiaolong's temper were all over the world, and he was scolded a lot, and his reputation took a sharp turn.
Shi Xiaolong was crowned with the title of scumbag, and for a time, everyone felt that He Jie had found the wrong boyfriend.
The next year, He Jie and He Ziming confessed their love in a high profile and quickly married.
From a child star loved by everyone to being hit by the reality of the entertainment industry, will Shi Xiaolong have a great sense of gap in his heart when he grows up?
3
"If life could have a chance to start over, I'd rather be an ordinary kid than be a child star." Shi Xiaolong once said such a thing.
Nowadays, such people are arbitrarily speculating, and Shi Xiaolong's heart is estimated to be even more tormented.
Shi Xiaolong still tries to film, trying to numb himself with his work, and he has also participated in many variety shows.
In 2013, Shi Xiaolong participated in Zhejiang Satellite TV's variety show "China Star Jump".
It is particularly unfortunate that when his assistant Peng Jiaxuan took care of him, he also tried to dive on a 3-meter springboard because of curiosity, and accidentally drowned.
After investigation, it was found that the coaches, medical personnel and staff of the program team at that time were protecting Shi Xiaolong.
When the assistant was found, he had already sunk into the pool, and the boy was only 18 years old and had lost his precious life.
Although it was the negligence of the program team, but also because the assistant acted without authorization, even if Shi Xiaolong blamed himself, he could not escape the interference, and waves of condemnation poured into him.
"Well thought, it was just a dream..."
Shi Xiaolong had been immersed in sadness for a long time, and this little assistant had a good relationship with him in his daily life, and was a member of his "Dragon Gate Shi Family" martial arts team, and also grew up with him.
Because of this change, he temporarily quit the show.
In June of the same year, Shi Xiaolong was again involved in a beating storm.
Huang Liang, a staff member of Fengxing Studio, claimed on social platforms that Shi Xiaolong's driver beat him violently, his glasses were beaten and his camera was damaged, while Shi Xiaolong and a girl just looked at him coldly, suspected to be a new girlfriend.
In the end, all of them were taken away by the police for investigation.
Shi Xiaolong let his driver beat others, and such news was rampant.
"Shi Xiaolong, as a public figure, is so shameless!" Huang Liang, who was beaten, couldn't swallow this breath even more.
Although it is really unpleasant to be photographed by people, Shi Xiaolong really should not indulge the driver to beat people, which is really a positive image of the star.
Although In the end, Shi Xiaolong apologized and compensated for the loss of the camera, his image was once again questioned.
During that time, he concentrated on filming in the crew and reducing exposure.
There have been many film and television dramas broadcast, but his fame has been greatly reduced, even if he strictly controls himself in body shape management, he has never been out of the circle.
Although the audience knows his name, he is only an ordinary actor, and there are no more works that suddenly became popular when he was a child.
In 2019, Shi Xiaolong was pushed to the cusp of the storm again.
His father, Chen Tongshan, played the sign of his son, and the source of students in martial arts schools was particularly good, and people from all over the country came to learn martial arts in an endless stream.
Chen Tongshan accelerated the establishment of a number of martial arts schools to recruit students.
Most of the trainees came for Shi Xiaolong, including some fans.
Unexpectedly, one day one of the schools had a big problem!
After a girl was sent to learn martial arts, she died mysteriously after only two days of school.
During the medical examination, it was also found that she had bruises on her left chest and abdomen, which looked like she had been kicked hard.
According to media reports, she was suspected of being beaten by martial arts instructors and classmates before her death.
The staff of the martial arts school strenuously denied it, claiming that the child herself was ill and that no one at the school had beaten her.
It is difficult to judge which is right and wrong.
But this incident made Shi Xiaolong's reputation once again in the depths of the water.
His father recruited students in his name, and regardless of whether the child's physique was suitable or not, he could enroll after paying the tuition.
As a spokesman and Chen Tongshan's son, Shi Xiaolong naturally could not escape the blame.
The succession of right and wrong made Shi Xiaolong unable to argue, and it was difficult to escape the pressure of public opinion.
Whether it was forced by his father to learn martial arts from the age of 2, or was reprimanded in love, or died unexpectedly by his assistant, Shi Xiaolong's life was full of various changes.
Even more because of his father, he was pushed to another vanity fair and was infinitely consumed famous.
Although he became a popular child star at the age of 4, he did not understand the happiness of fame and fortune at that time, but more of the hardships of filming and the loss of being far away from his relatives.
When he returned to the entertainment industry, he experienced a low point.
I believe that these experiences are all growth for him.
Not long ago, Shi Xiaolong was photographed taking his wife and daughter to see the villa, which made netizens marvel, when did he have children?
Now Shi Xiaolong has his own family, and there is no shortage of drama in the entertainment industry.
Although he will never return to his former highlight moments, he is still active in this circle.
As an audience, Shi Xiaolong will always be an indelible joyful memory of our childhood.
It belongs to the era of Shi Xiaolong, and it is gone forever